Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- URL:
- http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0801425751
- Published:
- Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
- ISBN:
- 0801425751
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Subject Term:
- Caribbean area, Fiction, History and criticism (genre, time periods, etc.), Carpentier, Alejo (1904-1980)
- Notes:
- 260 p, Contents: Caribbean modernist discourse : writing, exile, and tradition -- From exile to nationalism : the early novels of George Lamming -- Beyond the Kala-pani : the Trinidad novels of Samuel Selvon -- Deformation of modernism : the allegory of history in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces -- Modernism and the masks of history : the novels of Paule Marshall -- Writing after colonialism : Crick crack, Monkey and Beka lamb -- Narration at the postcolonial moment : history and representation in Abeng
